.\" Copyright 2015 Ondrej Oprala(ooprala@redhat.com)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH LSIPC "1" "November 2015" "util-linux" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
lsipc \- show information on IPC facilities currently employed in the system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B lsipc
[options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B lsipc
shows information on the System V inter-process communication facilities
for which the calling process has read access.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-id\fR \fIid\fR
Show full details on just the one resource element identified by
.IR id .
This option needs to be combined with one of the three resource options:
.BR \-m ,
.BR \-q " or"
.BR \-s .
It is possible to override the default output format for this option with the
\fB\-\-list\fR, \fB\-\-raw\fR, \fB\-\-json\fR or \fB\-\-export\fR option.
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-global\fR
Show system-wide usage and limits of IPC resources.
This option may be combined with one of the three resource options:
.BR \-m ,
.BR \-q " or"
.BR \-s .
The default is to show information about all resources.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display help text and exit.
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Display version information and exit.
.SS "Resource options"
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-shmems\fR
Write information about active shared memory segments.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-queues\fR
Write information about active message queues.
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-semaphores\fR
Write information about active semaphore sets.
.SS "Output formatting"
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-creator\fR
Show creator and owner.
.TP
\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-export\fR
Produce output in the form of key="value" pairs.  All potentially unsafe value
characters are hex-escaped (\\x<code>).  The key (variable name) will be
modified to contain only characters allowed for a shell variable identifiers,
for example, USE_PCT instead of USE%.
.TP
\fB\-J\fR, \fB\-\-json\fR
Use the JSON output format.
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-list\fR
Use the list output format.  This is the default, except when \fB\-\-id\fR
is used.
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-newline\fR
Display each piece of information on a separate line.
.TP
\fB\-\-noheadings\fR
Do not print a header line.
.TP
\fB\-\-notruncate\fR
Don't truncate output.
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output \fIlist\fP
Specify which output columns to print.  Use
.B \-\-help
to get a list of all supported columns.
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
Print size in bytes rather than in human readable format.
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-raw\fR
Raw output (no columnation).
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-time\fR
Write time information.  The time of the last control operation that changed
the access permissions for all facilities, the time of the last
.BR msgsnd (2)
and
.BR msgrcv (2)
operations on message queues, the time of the last
.BR shmat (2)
and
.BR shmdt (2)
operations on shared memory, and the time of the last
.BR semop (2)
operation on semaphores.
.TP
\fB\-\-time\-format\fR \fItype\fP
Display dates in short, full or iso format.  The default is short, this time
format is designed to be space efficient and human readable.
.TP
\fB\-P\fR, \fB\-\-numeric\-perms\fR
Print numeric permissions in PERMS column.

.SH EXIT STATUS
.TP
0
if OK,
.TP
1
if incorrect arguments specified,
.TP
2
if a serious error occurs.
.SH HISTORY
The \fBlsipc\fP utility is inspired by the \fBipcs\fP utility.
.SH AUTHORS
.MT ooprala@redhat.com
Ondrej Oprala
.ME
.br
.MT kzak@redhat.com
Karel Zak
.ME

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR ipcmk (1),
.BR ipcrm (1),
.BR msgrcv (2),
.BR msgsnd (2),
.BR semget (2),
.BR semop (2),
.BR shmat (2),
.BR shmdt (2),
.BR shmget (2),
.BR sysvipc (7)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The lsipc command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
.UR https://\:www.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
Linux Kernel Archive
.UE .
